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The contract, announced at this week’s 2025 Avalon Australian International Airshow, will expand the Queensland Police Service (QPS) Bell 429 fleet to a half dozen helicopters. Townsville–based Meridian Helicopters will provide law enforcement services in north Queensland for QPS’s Polair service using the three new Bell 429s.

VAI has released footage featuring 34 helicopters from the fly-in at VERTICON 2025, which took place earlier this month in Dallas, Texas.

(POWER UP magazine) – Mistaken assumptions about your aircraft’s fuel can be deadly.

(POWER UP magazine) – Every year, through our Salute to Excellence Awards, VAI recognizes outstanding members of the vertical flight community for going above and beyond in their work. Whether in a single instance or throughout a career, these aviation professionals from around the globe remind us to always aim for excellence.

In honor of World Water Day 2025 on Mar. 22, Airbus has published a feature about how two H125 crews collected aerial data in December 2024 and January 2025 as part of the SWIDA-RINGS scientific research project in Antarctica.

The OEM is planning to submit an IFR variant of its Bell 505 Jet Ranger X single-engine light helicopter for an upcoming bid to update the US Army’s fleet of training helicopters.

The 7th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Day on Mar. 21 included nearly 200 middle and high school students visiting Robinson Helicopter’s manufacturing plant in Torrance.

(POWER UP magazine) – Every year, through our Salute to Excellence Awards, VAI recognizes outstanding members of the vertical flight community for going above and beyond in their work. Whether in a single instance or throughout a career, these aviation professionals from around the globe remind us to always aim for excellence.